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kingofnycabbies
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Haven't seen the book yet, so it's hard to say whether these errors are indicative of an overall sloppiness. In the author's potential defense, I'd simply say that writers rarely have anything to do with picture selection and caption writing, which are often independently created, usually late in the production cycle. That's one way mistakes get made.

Alright, qc, I've asked this on other sites: Are there official neighborhood boundaries which the city recognizes, or is it all flexible? If there are official boundaries, I'd like to know how to find them. In 13 years of driving a cab, I've never been able to figure this out, especially with Bushwick now going as East Williamsburg, and other realtor depredations.

If the "historian/preservationist/author" cliquecan't distinguish their asses from their elbowsdon't expect Queens to be visible on the radar screento the LPC, hizzoner, or any of those otherManhattan-centric boobs!

You'd expect some grade school dope,who's (all too often) unfamiliar with world geographynot to know where Sri Lanka is located....but this is rudimentary local stuff!

Even within a neighborhood, there are distinct communities. However, that will all change soon as the Fedderization of Queens moves forward. We don't need abstract things like communities. We need warehouses to store more bodies. 1 million more by 2030!

Thanks for this post and for the comments. As someone with a lot of childhood roots in and fond memories of Queens, I was planning to buy this book. But now I'll save a few bucks and not buy it. It doesn't matter to me whether it was the fault of the author or the publisher; these kind of blatant mistakes kill the author's credibility and makes you wonder what other facts she got wrong. End result is usually a pretty cheesy-seeming product.

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